Gerun Oracles

[Nalien]

Side stories. Crystal Tower is locked up and the Void Gate closed "Permanently" and when we inevitably defeat Scathach and Diabolos then they'll be done too.

I really hope not... While the characters therein might as well be, the whole Void has to have some relevance... It could, and probably is, just the same reoccurring Void from games like Final Fantasy V, but given how central it seems to parts of the plot I'm not so sure... The hoops ExDeath had to jump through to access that Void were pretty substantial, meanwhile our Void is something a whole civilization managed to harness... I wonder if "Light and Dark were divided" and the whole Rejoining could refer to the Void... The Ascians certainly have a few connections to it...

And, like The Coil, once Alexander's plot is done it will never be relevant again.

The fact that we actually ran through it might be somewhat irrelevant, but I'd say Coil still has some relevance, given Tiamats introduction and potentially Alisaie's reintroduction to the plot. Similarly, the whole Cloud of Darkness plot could be further fleshed out at some point, regardless of us actually doing it or not... I mean, there is a FATE that references Xandes in much the same way I've always felt they should handle Coil in the MSQ. If you've not done Crystal Tower, the FATE loses a bit of its novelty, if you have, then you "get it".

For example, imagine Minfilia dies, and everyone is "sad", but then Alisaie summons Phoenix to save the day. It wouldn't directly need to reference the side-story content, it would just be a case of people who've done it getting the reference being made. All it requires is for the developers to accept sequence breaking as a thing; People who do 3.0 without clearing all of 2.0s content would be sequence breaking, like how people could get up to 2.55 and then do Culinarians final quest...

I don't know, Elidibus and Nabriales had a pretty tense conversation too, as if the Ascians view Elidibus as an annoyance. It's really hard to say at this point.

I wouldn't be surprised if the majority of Ascians are somewhat hostile to Elidibus (and Lahabrea), given they're effectively outsiders. More so with Elidibus, given the position he seems to have either been given, or earned. Granted, we don't really know how big a deal his position is, but I imagine it's effectively similar to the Pope, he is the voice of Zodiark, and he is an outsider. That would rustle a few feathers, I think.